Sources: BBC
More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. 2024-10-2
Protests against President Bola Tinubu's economic reforms continue across Nigeria, as security forces fire tear gas at protestors and the government orders curfews across several northern states. 2024-08-2
Armed bandits kill about 140 people in Plateau State, Nigeria. Many houses are burned down. 2023-12-26
At least nine people are killed when a container falls from a truck onto a commercial bus in Lagos, Nigeria. 2023-01-29
The Nigerian government announces that they will require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or to submit a negative PCR test from the previous 72 hours beginning on December 1. 2021-10-13
The number of people found dead following a boat accident in Kebbi State, Nigeria, three days ago, increases to 76. Many more people are still missing. 2021-05-29
Three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday are found shot dead. 2021-04-23
A teenage girl suicide bomber kills five people and injures fourteen others in the Damaturu area in northeast Nigeria. 2015-08-25
Voters in Nigeria go to the polls for a general election. Gunmen kill at least 15 voters including an opposition house of assembly candidate for Dukku in Gombe. 2015-03-28
Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed. 2012-04-29